Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-22
TERMS--$2. 90 PER YEAR.
HERE AND THERE.


Peanut stands will not be allowed here
after on the streets of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Within ten miles of Chico, CAL, there are
5000 acres Of land owned by four men.
Over $50 900 persons visited the Quaker city
on the last day Of the celebration. 1t Is estl-
mated that four hundred trains were employed
in transporting them.
1t is reported that it will cost the New York
Central Railroad company nearly S'O0oOO 10
fit their cars with steam-hcating apparatus
80 that stoves can be abandoned.
A project which involves the connecting OF
Santa Ana, Modena, Tustin, and Orange with
an electric motor raid, is receiving the con-
sideraton of wealthy Californans.
The center of the sewer-ppe industry OF the
| United States is northeastern Ohio, where
! ther. are immense aud almost inexhaustible
banks of clay from which the pipe is made.
What is said to be the largest cargo OF coal
ever shipped is now on its way from Baltimore
to Boston in the three-masted schooner Henry
H. Olds The cargo is ,456 tons OF bitumin-
Gus coal.
A large hawk attacked a coyote near Wala
Walla. Washington territory, one day re-
Gently, and by hitting it on the head succeed
ed in pecking 1t to death inside of twenty
minutes.
The famous orchid wand sanderiana, bought
by the late Mrs. Morgan, Of New YORK, Tor
$1,000, is on exhibition in Mechanics building
at Boston. 1t is one of the rarest and most
famous plants in existence.
Tie Idaho Nelcs states that Bennett, the ex-
press messenger in jail at that place on suspic-
ion of having stolen $4,000 intrusted to his
care, has confessed and that all but 81 800 OF
the money has been recovered.
A resident of Richie Court House, W. Va,
named Martin drank pint Of kerosene last
Monday, and the next day was gently laid to
rest In pine box in the city cemetery. IL
was an experiment 1t is supposed.
The people of Pennsylvania seem to think
of nothing but centennials nowadays. Hunt
ingdon county will celebrate its one hundredth
birthday on the Goth, sasquehanna county in
October, and the borough OF York on the 23d
, inst.
} The interesting discovery has just been
made at San Francisco that in nearly thou
sand cases where the courts have granted d.
vorces the judge has neglected to sign the de-
cree and there is no entry Of judgment dis
. coverable.
1 The extraordinary supply Of grouse In Lon
0 don on the first day the shooting law was up
| is now accounted for by the information that
the grouse had been kept for ten months In
:, ice-celers at a temperature Of 2S degrees
They we're very much relished.
t Uncle Aaron Station, Of Cralghead county,
It Arkansas is SO years old, and his wife 81. They
have lived together more than sixty years.
o They have eighteen living children, and are
? both hale and hearty and able TO show the de-
generate youngsters how to work.
: Mexican prophet who prophesied rain In
IL the state Of Sonora has just been sentenced
n to two years in the penitentiary. 1t would be
d a great blessing to this country II some one
N would box up car load Of local prophets and
export them to the land Of the Aztecs.
!. ), 1t has been proven through series OF ex-
!. periments that large ocean stea mer going at
ld nineteen knots an hour will move over about
s. two miles after its engines are stopped and re-
re versed, and no authority gives less than
=, mile or mile and a half as the required
y, space to stop its progress.
An apple-tree on the farm Of Capt I. j.
williamson in Peasants county, Virginia,
which has borne fruit for number OF years.
has never been known to blossom. This year
the tree is again full OF large apples tne
strangest thing about which Is that the fruit
has neither core nor seed.
1t is said that Immediately after the adop
ton Of the federal constitution Alexander
Hamilton planted thirteen trees at his country
place in honor OF the event, and that they are
still standing. The place is now cut up into
building lots. however, and the venerable land
marks will sooner or later disappear.
Recently a burglar jumped through the win
dow OF New York store to escape arrest, ant
so cut himself that he soon bled to death
Now his father is taking slep3 10 obtain dam
ages from the owner OF the store on the pecu
liar ground that the son should have Deel
given a chance to get out Of the rear door.
1t has been decided by judge in Sal
Diego, Cal, that deed to real estate from
husband to a wife, where Glove and affection
are named as the consideration, is void II th
parties do not live in harmony, there being nt
valuable love and affection in that case, am
the statute requiring valuable consideration
Capt. Andrews and hi, dog Fido who hav
travelled during the past four years over te
thousand miles, have reached Hartford, Conn.
on their trip from Charleston, s. q. Tn
captain is 81 years old, and is a resident o
WulCu pihCC iSAh ~ AP'N
walk to Boston. His hearing and eyesigf
are perfect
|. A group Of oil brokers standing near th
8 entrance Of the smoking room OF the exchang
ast in Oil City were much agitated, the 9TH
ro afternoon, when black snake dropped dow
among them and several were quite sure Il
'ho an instant that they chad 'em." The snail
eel was real, she had escaped from the priva
ual collection Of saloon-keeper.
ar A Maine woman, who takes pleasure in h'
roe poultry, has adopted a singlar but excelle
Of method for keeping her chickens at hom
:. She ties a small corn-cob TO one leg, allowir
i'' it TO dangle at distance OF about six inche
the The fowl can scratch and get about with cas-
eat but it is said, will not attempt to fly oy
ely palngs or squeeze through crack.
can The Neu York Sun says that some OF u
o1 dry-goods men who have been making SUI
extraordinary sales in the last two WEI
e'e assert that the business has been carried
ood with very little profit The great number
| leading articles that have 10 he sold at abo
os cost and the lowness Of prices generally ha
rho left the money-making to the retailers.
90 Thursday evening Mr.. George Dozier,
~, wealthy planter Of Cuthbert county, Georg
1he was much annoyed by the loud talk and cu